ECTS
5 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Hourly volume
37,5h
Description
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Natural forest |
The main types of forests (tropical, temperate, Mediterranean, boreal, etc.) and their species |
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Successive stages of the forest (pioneers,...) |
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Cultivated forest and silviculture |
Plantations, species |
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Silvicultural practices: planted forest and natural regeneration, pruning, thinning, continuous cover, plantations, tree maturity, rotation time, production tables, management plan & layout |
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Agroforestry |
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Soil and nutrients |
Soil, litter and dead wood degradation |
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Threats and opportunities on forests |
Climate threats (drought, diseases, insects) and solutions for the future |
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Anthropogenic threats (forest management, illegal trade, ...) |
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French sector |
Eco-socio-economic specificities |
Objectives
The EU "Natural and cultivated forests" aims to distinguish the different types of forests with their specific issues, their management methods and the resulting uses.
Targeted competencies
- List the main species characteristic of natural and cultivated forests and their possible uses
- Explain the competitions and synergies between species in a forest ecosystem and the resulting developmental stages in a successional dynamic.
- Describe the types of silviculture and their main operations and environmental impacts
- Decipher a production table or curve and a management plan
- Justify the choice of management methods according to ecological, economic and social issues.
- To know the physical basis of climate change, the manifestations of climate change on forest ecosystems and their impacts according to species and silviculture methods
- Demonstrate critical thinking in the choice of species in relation to the silvicultural system and natural and anthropic risks.